In recognition of his contributions to literature and education, on 1 January 1932, Buchan was granted the personal gift of the sovereign of induction into the Order of the Companions of Honour.

The donations continued to pour in: the Emperor Napoleon III gave a gift of 1, 000 francs, and also bestowed on Haffreingue the Legion of Honour.

The gift was particularly gratifying for Neville ; his family had experienced a deep feud with the former Earls of Northumberland, the Percys, who supported the House of Lancaster.

New York City sophisticates Dan King and Ruth Winters travel to Bird-in-Hand in the Amish country of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania to sell a piece of property to Jacob Yoder, who intends to present it to his daughter Katie and her intended Ezra as a wedding gift.

Beyond a gift of $ 10 million for peace promotion, Carnegie also encouraged the " scientific " investigation of the various causes of war, and the adoption of judicial methods that should eventually eliminate them.

He also provided a gift of a bag containing all winds but the west, which Odysseus's crew members unwittingly opened just before they were to reach Ithaca.

In Shaker society, a spiritual " gift " could also be a musical revelation, and they considered it important to record musical inspirations as they occurred.

Cyprian also laid great emphasis on the fact that any minister who broke with the Church lost ipso facto the gift of the Spirit which had validated his orders.

" It also uses sacred scripture in support of this practice, namely,, which states: " Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

Mu Bai, intending to give up his warrior life, asks Shu Lien to transport his sword, also referred to as the Green Destiny, to the city of Peking, as a gift for their friend Sir Te ( Sihung Lung ).

The United Church of Canada also allows same-sex marriage, and views sexual orientation as a gift from God.

Live drinking games such as Los Angeles-based " A Drinking Game " have also become popular, recreating films of the 80s in a " Rocky Horror " fashion, with gift bags, drinking cues, and costumed actors.

In the poem Carmen Campidoctoris, Babieca appears as a gift from " a barbarian " to El Cid, so its name could also be derived from " Barbieca ", or " horse of the barbarian ".

In Swedish, Norwegian and Danish, gift means " poison " but also " married ".

In Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, " gift " also means ' married ', in the sense ' given in marriage '.

This last comment seems to have been made by someone confusing the " gift of tongues " with the " gift of the interpretation of tongues, which is specified as a different gift in the New Testament, but one that can be given to a person who also has the gift of tongues.

Compare those to Norman hoguinané and the obsolete customs in Jersey of crying ma hodgîngnole, and in Guernsey of asking for an oguinane, for a New Year gift ( see also La Guiannee ).

Hephaestus also created the gift that the gods gave to man, the woman Pandora and her pithos.

" However, he also advocated that individuals give to each other their surplus property on the occasion that others have a need for it, without involving trade ( e. g. gift economy ).

Congress also debated whether the federal government had the authority to accept the gift, though with Adams leading the initiative, Congress decided to accept the legacy bequeathed to the nation and pledged the faith of the United States to the charitable trust on July 1, 1836.

Among the prevailing types of theories that attempt to account for the existence of love there are: psychological theories, the vast majority of which consider love to be very healthy behavior ; there are evolutionary theories which hold that love is part of the process of natural selection ; there are spiritual theories which may, for instance consider love to be a gift from God ; there are also theories that consider love to be an unexplainable mystery, very much like a mystical experience.

They also carried flags, gift bundles, medicine and other items they would need for their journey.

Sacrifice is in a sense a gift ( offering ) to God, but also involves the transfer of the offering from the everyday to the sacred ; those who eat meat are eating a sanctified meal, and God's share in this is the " pleasing odour " released as the offering ( incense or meat ) is burnt.

Ladbrokes Poker also operates a loyalty program for its online poker players where players are able to exchange their poker points for gift & prizes.

Mieszko I also appeared as " Dagome " in a papal document from about 1085, called Dagome iudex, which mentions a gift or dedication of Mieszko's land to the Pope ( the act took place almost a hundred years earlier ).

Usually this is achieved through a deed of gift, which also establishes copyright ownership that is critical for publication and archival preservation.

There are many English words of non-Romance origin where ⟨ g ⟩ is hard though followed by ⟨ e ⟩ or ⟨ i ⟩ ( e. g. get, gift ), and a few in which ⟨ g ⟩ is soft though followed by ⟨ a ⟩ ( margarine ).

For example, in a Pentecostal church service, the gift of tongues might be exercised followed by the operation of the gift of interpretation.

UPCI sources emphasize that no one can repent on his or her own power ; it requires a supernatural gift of God's grace. See under heading " The Source of Repentance " in Bernard, David K. It does not bring by itself the full power of salvation, and unless it is followed up with baptism in water in the name of Jesus Christ and baptism of the Holy Ghost, it may be lost. See under heading " Relationship to Water and Spirit Baptism " in Bernard, David K. Furthermore, the ability to repent is temporary and may only be accomplished while one is alive.

The long premeditated, and now avowed design of the British Government, to raise a revenue from the property of the colonists without their consent, on the gift, grant and disposition of the Commons of Great Britain ; the arbitrary and vindictive statutes passed under color of punishing a riot, to subdue by Military force, and by famine, the Massachusetts Bay ; the unlimited power assumed by parliament to alter the charter of that province, and the constitution of all the colonies, thereby destroying the essential securities of the lives, liberties and properties of the colonists ; the commencement of hostilities by the ministerial forces, and the cruel prosecution of the War against the people of the Massachusetts Bay, followed by General Gage's proclamation, declaring almost the whole of the Inhabitants of the united colonies, by name or description, rebels and traitors are sufficient causes to arm a free people in defence of their liberty, and to justify resistance, no longer dictated by prudence merely, but by necessity, and leave no alternative but base submission or manly opposition to uncontroulable tyranny.

The Carrimore Car Transporter Mark IV using the recently introduced Scammell cab was also released in April 1969 and a gift set ( GS48 ) featuring the new transporter and six cars ; MGC GT ( 345 ), Mini Cooper Monte Carlo 1967 ( 339 ), Sunbeam Imp Monte Carlo 1967 ( 340 ), Mini Cooper S Magnifique ( 334 ), Morris Mini Minor ( 226 ) and The Saint's Volvo P1800 ( 258 ) soon followed.

The rebuilding project initially was funded by St. Louis developer Norman Probstein with a gift of $ 2 million, followed by donations of $ 2 million from Eagle Golf, $ 2. 4 million from the Danforth Foundation, $ 4. 5 million from Forest Park Forever, and $ 1. 6 million from the city of St. Louis.

A gift of $ 10-million by the family in 1997 was followed by one for $ 28-million in 2000, thought to be the largest such gift to a Florida university at the time.

The first was Sir Roger Burgoyne, 2nd Baronet, a barrister and MP in the Long Parliament, in whose gift was Sutton, Bedfordshire, his living ; followed by Francis Pierrepont, a Parliamentarian colonel and younger brother of Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester ( a Royalist ) and William Pierrepont ( like Francis a Parliamentarian ).

There is no gift superior to Annadanam, the tradition of providing food to the sunging has been followed since the Vedic period.

At the end of the ride, there is an area where guests may purchase a photo of them on the ride followed by a Mummy themed gift shop titled " Sahara Traders " which replaced Kongfrontation's " Safari Outfitters " gift shop.

This was followed in 1955 by The Lady in the Tower, and, in 1957, by another love story, A Girl Among Poets, which won praise from Sir John Betjeman, who wrote of the author's " gift for describing farcical situations ".

After Princess Pingyang offered the singer-dancer Wei Zifu to Emperor Wu as a concubine circa 139 BC, Wei Qing followed as an accompanying gift to serve as a palace horsekeeper.

( Musseli told friends she had not wanted to sell her home, but that Lerner urged her to cut her ties with her native city and that she entrusted Lerner with the proceeds of the sale, for investment in the U. S .) The daughter of a World War One French war hero and herself an unsung heroine of the Resistance, whose Corsican forebears were intimates of Napoleon Bonaparte, she later made Lerner the gift of a chateau in France after he declared to her that he wanted a French rural retreat where he could write.

He decided he would name his future studio " Zoetrope " after receiving a gift of zoetropes from Mogens Scot-Hansen, founder of a studio called Lanterna Film and owner of a famous collection of early motion picture making equipment.

It was inaugurated by Titus in 80 CE, the personal gift of the Emperor to the people of Rome, paid for by the Imperial share of booty after the Jewish Revolt.

* Anne Primavesi ( 2003 ), Gaia's gift: earth, ourselves, and God after Copernicus

Is a watch, received as a gift, still the same after it hits the chain saw?

Herod originally leased Jericho from Cleopatra, after Mark Antony gave it to her as a gift.

The last campaign of the war ( 1648 ) was uneventful, and shortly after its close he retired to live on the estates which he had bought in the course of his career, and on one of these, Benátky nad Jizerou NE of Prague in Bohemia, a gift from the emperor, he died on September 12, 1652 and was buried in the church of Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Benátky.

Kazakhs deliver a white horse as a gift to the Qianlong Emperor of China ( 1757 ), soon after the Qing conquest of Xinjiang.

He began making his own films at the age of 11 after receiving a Super-8 camera as a gift and continued to be involved in independent moviemaking throughout his high school years.

Amazingly, the physicist Pyotr Kapitsa refused to work with Beria even after he gave him a hunting rifle as a gift.

In 929 the city went to Edward the Elder's daughter Edith, through her marriage to Henry's son Otto I, as a Morgengabe — a Germanic customary gift received by the new bride from the groom and his family after the wedding night.

Edison moved from Menlo Park after the death of Mary Stilwell and purchased a home known as " Glenmont " in 1886 as a wedding gift for Mina in Llewellyn Park in West Orange, New Jersey.

Wherefore the King, by most cogent proof, shows him that the blame rests not with him, but with the knight's own evil fortune ; after which, he bestows upon him a noble gift.

* January 1 – Burma is presented to Queen Victoria as a birthday gift, after the country is annexed into British India in November 1885.

What is clear is that from early on there were marked differences of wealth within the state, and these became even more serious after the law of Epitadeus, passed at some time after the Peloponnesian War, removed the legal prohibition of the gift or bequest of land.

Maximilian also gave a bizarre jousting helmet as a gift to King Henry VIII – the helmet's visor featured a human face, with eyes, nose and a grinning mouth, and was modeled after the appearance of Maximilian himself.

Conventionally, the woman's ring is presented as a betrothal gift by a man to his prospective spouse while he proposes marriage or directly after she accepts his marriage proposal.

He appealed to ALA members to donate books and volunteer for service, and by June 1918 the association had purchased 300, 000 books, sent 1, 349, 000 gift books to camps, and distributed 500, 000 magazines .” In the time after World War I, the services of the Library of Congress towards the war effort provided a new outlook for the American public on the possibilities of what a successful library could accomplish.

Also, similar to his father's gold medals in rowing at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics, he competed in the sport at the 1948, 1952 and the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne where, on November 27, seven months after his sister's Monaco wedding, he won a bronze medal, which he gave to her as a gift of the occasion.

It has been argued that the Psalter was given as a gift from Fulk after their dispute and alleged infidelity surrounding Hugh.

* Stratton Hall at Colorado School of Mines, completed in 1904, was named after Stratton, who gave the school its first philanthropic gift of $ 25, 000.

In response to this gift, Carnegie Mellon renamed the College of Humanities of Social Sciences as the Marianna Brown Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences after William Dietrich's mother.

Islamic tradition reveres Seth as the gift bestowed upon Adam after the death of Abel.